Add the VUnit Python bridge as a VUnit package - #1

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Sep 24, 2026

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Add a VHDL to Python interface: python_pkg on a native bridge

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Add the embedded Python example

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Document the VHDL to Python interface

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Add CI for the VHDL to Python interface

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Use join() for the paths in the embedded Python example

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Name the typed subprograms and types std_ulogic

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Resolve a relative exec_file name from the testbench directory

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Keep all argument constructors in one place

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Drop the unused operation parameter of p_arg_value

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Use is_x to find the metavalues of an argument value

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Remove the string argument forms of to_call_str and call

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Make a call with an argument that failed fail in Python

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Let positional arguments form groups too

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Say why null_arg is the identity of an argument group

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Make a Python session a VUnit object

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Make the VHDL to Python interface a standalone VUnit package

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Document vunit-python-bridge and run its tests in CI

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Take the package support of VUnit as it is

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Release the package from a tag

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Leave the embedded Python example to VUnit

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Decide the foreign language interface from the simulator name

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Take the simulator installation from what VUnit gives

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Give every session its own logger and follow the object conventions

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Allow the package's setup function to run

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Simplify the Python bridge without changing its behaviour

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Take the run script from the file Python was started with

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Raise instead of exiting when add_python() cannot set up the package

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Move the C sources of the VHPI application next to the bridge

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Describe the C sources of the VHPI application in their first comment line

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Fall back to gcc on PATH for the Windows bridge builds

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Require a 64-bit simulator for VHDL Python support on Windows

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Test the gcc build of the bridge on Windows CI

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Keep the HDL sources of the package in hdl/src

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Install VUnit from the master branch of VUnit/vunit

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Release one py3-none-any wheel carrying the Windows DLLs

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Test the wheel on Linux, macOS and Windows without a compiler

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Point the links at VUnit/vunit-python-bridge

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Release the wheel only

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Read the manifest with tomli before Python 3.11 in the tests

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Make the library tests work on macOS

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Add the embedded Python example

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Run the embedded Python example in CI

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Remove the releasing section from the README

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